If you receive the Age Pension or other social secu-rity payments, you may have heard about upcoming changes to the deeming rates, which take effect from 20 September 2025. These changes could influence how your pension entitlements are calculated, depend-ing on how your income and assets are assessed. What Are Deeming Rates?Deeming rates are part […]
As a part of the government’s strategy to get more people back into work to solve skills shortages being experienced by many industries, a permanent enhancement to the pensioner work bonus has been announced, along with a doubling of the employment income nil rate period to reduce barriers for income support recipients to take up […]
Super contributions work test exemption extended; spouse contributions age limit increased The Budget confirmed the Treasurer’s announcement on 1 April 2019 that individuals aged 65 and 66 will be able to make voluntary superannuation contributions from 1 July 2020 (both concessional and non-concessional) without needing to meet the contributions work test. The age limit for […]
The Federal Government has announced that it will amend the law to extend the concessional tax treatment for genuine redundancy payments and early retirement scheme payments to align with the Age Pension qualifying age. Currently, an individual must be aged below 65 at the time their employment is terminated to qualify for a tax-free component […]